Beaked Yucca

This yucca resembles a tree and is a slow-growing, ornamental evergreen with a symmetrical pom-pom-like form. It has hundreds of 2-foot long narrow leaves that are a pale blue-green, forming a rosette at the top of the trunk. The trunk is covered with soft fiber remnants of old leaves. In late spring, the plant produces beautiful yellow-orange stalks with clusters of white flowers at the top.

 Unlike other yucca varieties, this plant has soft leaves, making it less dangerous. It is one of the hardiest trunk-forming yuccas, tolerating cold up to zone 5. While it prefers full sun, it can tolerate partial shade for at least three hours.